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Language Immersion: Still Awaiting Results
After four trips to India totalling nearly four months of time spent in complete immersion with my Malayalam-speaking in-laws, I’m becoming impatient with my own meager conversational skills. I wonder when the magic of immersion will kick in.
As I sit quietly, listening to the conversations around me, it’s a frustratingly rare occasion that I can pick out a new word I’m...
February 2010
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Medimix-the cleanest soap
It’s hot and dry here right now. Very hot. So when coming out of the shower feeling squeaky clean and fresh is a heightened experience. Like many women, I’ve run the gamut of bath products, but my favorite soap in the world is:
I will share some interesting tidbits about Medimix below, but I will tell you simply that the reason this green bar of soap is #1 for me is because it...
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Nutella
With Valentine’s Day a few days away, I thought I would write about some sort of sweet. Nutella is Italian (made by the Ferrero company), but I first discovered it as a child when my family lived in Germany. It is common throughout Europe and I see it on the shelves in many places in the world nowadays, including the US and Saint Lucia.
If you’re not allergic to nuts, you must try...
